FOWLER HAS SHARE OF LEAD

RICKIE FOWLER, who is playing for the first time since helping the Americans retain the Presidents Cup trophy, has a share of the lead at PGA Tour’s rain-hit OHL Classic at 10-under 132. World No. 10 Fowler is tied with Patrick Rodgers and Patton Kizzire, who hasn’t hit a ball since Friday because of thunderstorms which have caused delays over the past two days. Fowler finished three holes early Saturday morning and was then forced to wait out a five-hour rain delay, only to see play at the Playa del Carmen course halted by darkness. After waiting out the weather, Fowler said all he could do was hope for the best on Sunday – which will be a 36-hole finish. “We deal with weather every once in a while on the PGA Tour, around the world, really,” Fowler said. “You kind of just learn to play when you get to play, relax when you get to relax. Rest when you can, tee it up when you can.” a one-stroke win at the Blue Bay LPGA at home yesterday. Feng hit a final round two under-70 for a total of nine-under 279 to finish ahead of Thai Moriya Jutanugarn, who agonisingly witnessed her birdie attempt on the final hole lip out and with it the chance of levelling the scores. Last Sunday, the 28-year-old Feng defended an LPGA title for the first time when she secured a two-shot victory at the TOTO Japan Classic and the Chinese is projected to take over the women’s top ranking from Park Sung-hyun of South Korea. Park was among a quartet of golfers to finish tied for third. ending Valencia Grand Prix yesterday. Holding a commanding 21-point lead in the championship from Andrea Dovizioso, Marquez was guaranteed the title with a top-11 finish or if Dovizioso failed to win the race. And Dovizioso’s fate was sealed when he crashed out five laps from the end. Marquez’s Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa won the race from France’s Johann Zarco in second. Starting from pole, Marquez waved Zarco through on the fourth lap to rule out any chance of an untimely early crash. However, he couldn’t resist an attack on the Frenchman to try and win the championship in style with eight laps to go and ran wide, dropping him down to fifth. Yet, Ducati’s hopes of usurping Marquez were quickly undone as Jorge Lorenzo and then Dovizioso both crashed out as they paid the price for pushing at the limit for the whole race. Up front Pedrosa and Zarco were left to battle it out for the race win in a pulsating final few laps. Ultimately though the Spaniard came out on top on home soil to deny Zarco his first MotoGP win and round off a perfect day for the Honda pair.